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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

Bertolt Brecht

You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

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